THE FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR 

 EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY* 



Peace resolution 



The following resolution was unanimously adopted at the annual 

 meeting held in Saint Louis, on the twenty-eighth of December, 

 One thousand, nine hundred and f ourteen : 



Whereas, Various of the European nations with which many 

 of our members are related by birth, descent, or intellectual friend- 

 ship, are now at war ; 



Resolved, That we extend to the scientific men within these 

 nations the hope of an early and enduring peace, which will leave 

 the nations with no permanent cause of rancor towards each other, 

 and which will insure to each the glories of scientific and humanita- 

 rian achievement in accordance with its own conception of these 

 ideals. 



The Physiological Society^ 



Walter B. Cannon, President; 

 The Society of Biological Chemists, 



Graham Lusk, President; 

 The Society für Pharmacolggy and Experimental Thera- 



PEUTICS, 



Torald Sollman, President; 

 The Society for Experimental Pathology, 

 Richard M. Pearce, President; 



Philip A'. S haffer, 

 Secretary of the Federation, 



* The above is a copy of a formal Statement that was sent to every member 

 of the Federation. — (Ed.) 



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